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MAILS. A&a:VED-2 DuE-3 Cottenburgh, I Lisbon, 1 Cadiz, t Dublin, 3 Waterford. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols THE SUN. SOLEIsI QUIS DICLRE IiALSUM AUpEAT LONDO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, isog. This morning, two Heligoland Mails arrived, and a number of German Papers have been received. The intelligence they contain is of importance. It appears to be the general opinion in almost every prt of the Continent, that hostilities will speedily recommence between Austria and France. A Let ter from Vienna, of the date of the 2d of Septem ber, contains the following expressions. . " Our hcpes of peace decline. The French head-quar ters have been removed from Schoenbrunn to Presburg and the French army is' colleaed, pre pared for anion on the line of the Armistice." Dur ing the Armistice the Austrian army has changed its I.osition, and we think very much for the better.— Our readers will recolle&, that after . the battle of Wagratn, the Austrian army was forced back to Bohemia, and that it was, in fa&, almost cut off from Hungary. The Austrians have, however, now quitted Bohemia, and have taken a position upon tie 1001, leaning uoon the strong fortress of Co morn, This position covers almost , the whole of Hungary, and will enable the Austrians to draw supplies of men and provisions from that loyal and fertile country. Many of the Continental politicians speculate con fidently upon the defection of Russia from the cause of France. We know not however upon what au thority these speculat ions are founded, and the recent condu& of the Emperor ALEXANDER, forbids us to entertain any sanguine expeCtations that he will now adopt a policy more consistent with his own .honour and the interests of his Empire It is, how ever, positively stated, that a stria alliance has been formed between Russia and Prussia. These Papers are perfeetly si:ent upon the subjea of BUONAPARTE'S indisposition. The brave Tyro .lese still continue to defend themselves, and we are happy to say, with complete success. A report-has been for some days in circulation, thrit BUONAPARTg is seriously indisposed; but ru mours of that kind have been so frequently invented to answer particular purposes, that we were not much inclined to give .it credit. The intelligence, however, comes from so many quarters, and is so confidently repeated, that we begin to think it must have some foundation. We know that several per sons have arrived at Guernsey from Cherburgh, who all concur in stating that it was generally reported at Paris that.BuoNArARTE was dangerously ill, and that several eminent medical men had been sent for from Paris to attend him. His disorder is said to be a br'ain-fever, brought on by excessive fatigue. It is, however, very possible that his danger may have been very much exaggerated. It has been insinuated in a Morning Paper, that Lord MELVILLE is not well disposed towards the New Government. The best answer to this, is the WEI of the appointment of Mr. KOsEwr DUNDAS a 5 Secretary of State. we take this opportunity of cautioning our readers against all the reports which are in cir culation respeaing the sentiments and intentions of the 11_,Irquis \V E LLESLEY. Nothing can positively be known, as Ministerial politics have taken their present turn since his Lordship left England. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princess Au (-O:TA and SCFIIIA, aeeempanied.hy Lord CAMDEN L3dy ELY, Grneral FITZKOY, and Colonel TAYLOR, lode in Windsor Great Park, and returned at 12 o'ciock. Ytestz-rday the Duke of CAMBRIDGE arrived at from- the seat of Nlr. SANDFOED, at Nealhead. near Wellington, in Somersetshire, where he has been on a shooting party. His Royal Highness intends remaining a fortnight longer with Royal Sisters at Weym3uth. , Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES entertained a large party with an elegant dinner, at Carlton-house. 'l'est'erciay morning Lord CAMPEN arrived at 'indsor, and had an audience with his MAJESTY; his j,urdShip after Wards rode out with his ItiIAJESTY VW! the PRINCESSES. Mr. CANNING; as soon aS be is recovered, in tends to 'retireto his estate in Leicestershire. His tonse in Bruton-street, it is said, is about to be dis 7 pcsed of. A letter from Flushing, of the Ist instant, states 'the 23d regiment to have been so much reduced 'by .disease, that it is now struck off duty and ordered home. The embarkation was to commence last .Siunday. . ; The 'Blst regiment, at Flushing. has also been struck off duty, and will be ordered home. A:&.orditig to recent 'accoants from cadl4, a re port was 'very indUsiriously spread through Spain, - by the emissaries of NAPOLEON, that, if the French 'l,V.r'e'baio by the the coUntry was to be taken possession of in the name of the b.ing of /11,4(.31,AfD: GERMAN PAPERS. judge from ,the number of Couriers continually com. i 1 ing from and going to that place. On Sunday the BANKS OF TAB ELaa, SEPT. 1.----AI SiX o'clock 10th of August, the Duke of CADORE (Count this evening, the regular post from. Vienna had not CHANIPAGNY) gave a splendid ball, at which all the arrived, but yesterday late at night the French Mi 4 • nobility in the vicinity were present. nister received a courier with dispatches containing 13onEmiA, AUG. 28.—The positions of the two the news of the prolongation of the armistice, and armies have been much changed since the armistice. the article inserted in the Correspondent of this day, The Austrian main army is not in Bohemia, but was sent by his order. i concentrated along the Raab, leaning on Comorn.— This morning several mercantile houses in Ham- I The greater part of the troops from Bohemia and burgh received estafettes, with the same intelligence, Moravia have drawn that way. General GIULAY is but at the same time assurances were given, through t with a Corps in Croatia. The French army has for private channels, that no peace would be concluded, the most part drawn towards the right bank of the whatever the public prints on the Continent, parti- Danube. In Bohemia and Moravia, from Olmutz cularly the Vienna ones, might say to the contrary. 1 to Prague, there is a corps under the command of Some persons are of opinion that Austria will at the Archduke ... 17 ERDIN AN D i to whiCh is attached the last be joined by Russia. greater part of the landwehr or militia. Private letters from Paris state, that in case of a VIENNA, AUG. 30.—The Emperor NAFOLEON peace with Austria, NAPOLEON will go to the army I frequently makes excursions on horseback in the of the North, and afterwards to Spain. To this lot- f neighbourhood of Vienna, accompanied by the ter country several Imperial equipages have already Viceroy of Italy, the Prince Neufchatel, General been sent off from Paris. WALTHER, Commandant of the Guard, and other Private letters from Berlin state, that a close al liance 'between Russia and Prussia is expeled. The Emperor ALEXANDER is said to be uneasy at the vast military force which the Poles are organising in Gallicia, so near the frontiers of his own dominions. He is also not willing that the House of .kustria should be script of the last part of its hereditary do- minions. The preparations making in Saxony, seem to con firm the slight hopes to he entertained of an imme diate pac;fication with Russia. The King of Westphalia had given orders to his General, BONGARS, to occupy Hamburgh with the troops he lately had at Bremen, and he threatened to send 3000 men more of his troops. Hc+ ever, on the Senate paying an extortio❑ of so moderate a sum as 60,000 marks current-money in gold, the King forbore sending any troops at present. The great number of Custom House Officers arrived from France occupying the line from Bremen to Ham burgh, prevents all trade and commerce in these Generals. It is said that the Emperor will go for . some days to Brunn and to. Znayw, to review the two corps of the Du-kes , of Rivoli and Aum a inadr. M. DENos, the Diredor of the Museum of Paris, is still at Vienna. It is said that the rare books and manuscripts which are here, as also the piaures.and' oiher works of art, will be sent to Paris. The most valuable collections which were here were sent into Hungary before the arrival of the French. • A requisition of six thousand horses has been" made on the Austrian provinces occupied by the French.—(Correspoudenten, Sept. 13.) VIENNA, SEPT. 2.-Our hopes of peace decline. The French head-quarters have been removed froth Schcenbrunn to Presburg, arid the French army is colleded, prepared for action, on the line of the Ar parts. RATISBON, AUG. 30.—Private Letters arrrived this day from Vienna, say, that the armistice has been prolonged again for 20 days, that is to say, till the 20th of September.--(Correspondent). VIENNA, AUG. 20.—The armistice, which was to have terminated on, the 30th inst. has been pro longed for three weeks, viz. from the 31st August to the 20th September. The reason assigned for this is, the great distance of'the Court of St. Petersburgh, which is materially interested in the negotiations ; as, otherwise, no further prolongation would have taken place. As the city of Trieste has hitherto not been able to pay more than a small part of the war contribu_ tion imposed on it, the merchants there have now been divided into four classes. Those of the first class are to pay 146,000 livres, and those or the lowest 10,000. mistice. The Austrians have laid the country in the vici nity of Olmutz under water. The Course of Exchange, in consequence of the present gloomy appearances, has atered - much for the worse. The flux and a putrid fever prevail in the Austrian army. This sickly state of the troops is ascribed to the bad bread which the soldiers have been obliged to eat. '['he garrison of Trieste has been reinforced by some battalions. LAKE OF CONSTANCE, AUG. 29. —By advices 1 from St. Gallen, a regulation has now been made by the advice of NAPOLEON, that no trAveller from Switzerland 61011 be permitted to enter the Tyrol, unless he be provided with a French passport. In the same manner nobody flown rol is permitted to pass through the cordon of Helvetia, with troops into Switzerland, unless he is provided with a French passport. By this means, it is hoped, the communication which the English in tended to establish with the Tyrol, will be stopped. —The Tyrolians now endeavour to render all the passes to their oitintry inaccessible. NAGDELURGH, AUG. 22. ! —Yesterclay the servants of the Duke of Brunswick arrived here as prisoners, and were lodged in prison. This severe measure was taken, particular ly w ith regard to the Duke's Se cretary, AUGUSTUS BEEKEP., in whose band-writing some Proclamations were found among the Duke's Papers. BEEKER was not among the prisoners : he succeeded in escrping from his companions on the last post station. Estatettes were sent in pursuit of bins on all the roads. AUSTRIA, AUG. 25.—0 n the name-day of her Majesty the Empress LOUISA OF AUSTRIA; the Mar shal Duke of FRIUELI was sent to Comoro from Schioenbrunn,tO compliment her Majesty in the name of the Emperor NAPOLEON. VIENNA, AUG. 30.—The French, since the ar mistice, have been extremely alive. Prodigious entrenchments cover all the bridges of the Danube, and render Vienna inaccessible to an hostile army. The triple intrenchment which covers the bridge called Tabordonau, is especially deserving of admi ration. A corps of 20,000 men is encamped there. Within these few weeks a number of officers cf artillery, and five new regiments, have arrived here from Paris. The Austrians continue to carry on their military preparations in Hungary with great klivity. By an Imperial Order of the Day, the French army is distributed in five arrondissements, viz. those of Lititz, Braun, Presburgh, Gratz, and Trieste. The negotiations for peace at Altenburg are car ried on with the utmost adivity, at least if we may NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 6.—Arrived the Mamas and Judith,. POUNDS, and Benjamin, HUNTER, from , London ; also the Lime Trader, WYATT, from New castle. Sailed, the Jenny, Huon, for Youghall ; and the Union, --, for Bristol. ._ Came into harbour this day, the Kent, of 74 guns, Capt. I'. ROGERS ; Orion, of 74 guns, Sir A. C. DICKSON ; Porcupine gun-brig, Capt. R. ELLIOTi and the Surly cutter, of 10 guns, Lieutenant P. WELCU. PLYMOUTH, OCT. .—Arrived the Eliza, WILD.. INC; ; and Elizabeth, PHELPS, from London; Ann, VITTERY ; Joseph and Mary, MAY, from heath ; the Redbridge, CUMING, from Southamp ton ; and the American Schooner Eunice, THOMAS WALLACE, Master, from Liverpool, lade❑ with salt, bound to Gottenburgh, out i days, during which tune she encountered several heavy snow storms, and was obliged to put in here by contrgy 1 - winds. Sailed his Majesty's ship Rainbow, Capt. IeVooLD• RIDGE, to the westward ; and the brig Justinian, FARLEY, for Cadiz. His Majesty's ship Hesper, , now lying the Sound, is ordered to the. East Indies, and is to carry out dispatches_ from Government and the Hon. East India Company. - Arrived the Henrietta, ARMSTRONG, from Sun= derland ; and the. London, Packet, CR4GHTON, from London. he HARWICH, OCT. O.—This morning arrived t Earl of Leicester Packet, with Mails and passengers from Heligoland. _ _ Put back the Lord Duncan Packet, which s3iled on the 4th inst, for Heligoland. DEAL; OCT. O.—Came down from the River and s ' sailed to the westward the Pierre Tenisant; for Hayti ; and the Helena for Cadiz, Arrived his Majesty's ship Repulse, of 74 glans, from .Flushing, and sailed immediately for Ports- mouth. i Sailed the Harlequin armed ship, wiih the Thanzei, Thetis and Royalist under convoy' to Portsmouth. The following is an extra& of a letter from Car r Lain Frazer Smith, late of the ship Neptune , °I. Greenock, date 4 Lima, April 25, 1809, s c ud: Ll' ceived at Liverpoole - j We had a tedious passage round Cape Ho rn; ----- , • spoke an American whaler, =and gave two broadside s The Members of the Lodges of Free - Mason s i n to a Portuguese trial - 1 . of ar, who'we thous{-t wal many country towns have determined to go in pro- ' a .Frenchman'. We put into several places along the cess ion to church on the 25 th inst. It is c on s idered coast of Peru without molestation ; but one morn , iii,, as we lay at anchor in a creek; we saw a pc t ' by them as a jest and respectful co mp liment to his Niljesty, although he is not a member of the fra- ; vateer standing right in upon us. We immediatelf ternity. ' hove the anchor up, and prepared for aCtion, and na It is much to be regretted the demonstrations of , engagement ensued, that was kept up with g reat loyalty which the Corp oration o f London now in- spirit for four hours - . We were much hurt in out tend to exhibit on the 25t h in s t. s h o uld have been : sa i ls a nd r i gging; but finding us too strong for huntso clouded by party an d per s o n al h ic k erin g s. How , .. u;.he took advantage of his superior sailing, and left much more creditable would it have been for the' . • - We Municipal N w tie ( lembers of the first city in the orld to • cot okll damages repaired, and from t hat De6tnher Jean') till the 4th of February, we have emulated and followed the spirited and patrio- remained unditurhed. On that day, howee tic examples of the citizeus of D ublin and Feliu- , said privateer paid -as another visit, acccompauie'd by b u rgh, than to have afforded the enemies of thei-r the the Hero, of L ardor), a prize to her. Th.ough country an opportunity to tuink there existed a these made two to one against us, I trus ted to the d o ubt of attacrunent to FIis'eMAJESTV, or that party ~ strength of my metal, and to the • courage o f toy' spirit was ever suffered by Englishmen to predooai - I crew, and I ant happy to say, that in the result I, nate over their national love and feeling. • was not disappointed. The tiring began when we A plan of a new Theatre by subscription has been ' were within pistol-short of each othie-, and was con-. given in a Morning Paper of this day. It proposes tinued . with destrurlive etfeet dueng the whole of to raise a capital of 150,0001. in 150 shares of 10001. the aCtion ; they played on us with grape-shut from each, the establishment to be entrusted to a joint • their 24-pounders unmercifully, and would have stock Company instead of a few Proprietors. We swept away Many of my brave crew had they aimed, has &loth - Lion) for the whole of the plan, which in- more at the hull of the vessel; but their fire was die deed appears to be an advertiser:rent. But what is rested chiefly to our • sails and rigging, a nd I am some what strange, while the .Proprietor conceives sorry to say they were too successful in injuring that the increased extent of the metr o p olis re q uires those mate r i all y ; ;edeed, the y rendered the vessel a new 'Theatre, he proposes to have it erected in the , almost unmanageable. • We, however, paid them nt ! ighbiturhood of the others. If the r e real l y be au back in their own - way, and succeeded it) briegieg ititrution of applying for a P atent for • uch a Th e a- clown the privateer's top - masts and yards. Th e y' ire, it will not be deemed wonderful that those who'!_ stood out for upwards of four hours, bet finding us may be interested in obtaining it should resolve not too many for them, they put tap their helms, and to be convinced by any statements !which the Pro- • set off, leaving us the field, though the victory was prietors of Covent - Garden Theatre; may bring for- dearly oought, the vessel having suffered great in ward, and endeavour to prevent . the-restoration of jury, and tour of my seamen were, dangerously that tranquility which would, of course, prove an ob- wounded. Since I came here lam told the priva stacle to their liberal and public-spirited specula- j teer had 18 men killed,- besides several wouneed, Lions. which I readily believe, •as our fire, was direOed •An affair of great interest, that lately came be- lower than theirs, and their dec ks were•crowded fore the Special Criminal Tribunal at Metz attracted with men. We got our damages repa ired as well as a vast number of speCtators.—M. Le Chevalier Beau- we could, and pursued the obj ects of my v oy a g e,, mont Dixie, an English prisoner, accused M. De pretty confide nt that we shouldmeet no further in Balby of forgery, and Colonel Whaley, a prisoner terruption. In this, however, I was unhappily mise, also, as an accomplice. The complainant sought ! taken, for, on the 20th of the same month, I had 3 payment of a bill of exchange for 60,000 francs, ac- new and more powerful erierny to encounter. A t cepied by him, and payable at the house of M. Terre- large privateer, mountieg , 22 guns, and 170 men, under an American flag.- - gault, Paris. He admitted his signature, hut insisted. ! appeared in the offinig, that the bill, when signed by- hinnwas only for 1,0-00 We soon .sa w he was an enemy, and found his neue fr a ncs, which had been since altered to 60,000. tral flag was intended in deceive us. 'We prepared francs. A person acquainted with his, hand-writing to fight him at the same time that we endeavoured gave evidence against the accused. The Judges .did to avoid him ;. we perceived that he sailed well, and not conceive the proofs sufficient to substantiate the whenever 1 found that he gained on us, I gate or". charge ; in consequence the Court dismissed the ders to slacken sail; that we might the sooner bring complaint of the Chevalier Beaumont Dixie, against on an aetion there • was no avoidieg. About mid', Messrs. Balby and Whaley; and ordered th e parties eight we were nearly alongside of each other , an d to pay their own costs. But as some suspicious cir- immediately exchanged broadsides; the action 1 110 cumstances attached to the case, theecourt sent the went on, supported on both sides by an incessanc parties before a Civil Tribunal.—(Go4le de France.) and destructive tire. After fighting for nearly three The Court of Direaors of, the East India Com - ' hours, neither of us coil gain any ascendancy, a ild pany, we understand, have come to a resolution to the pause that ensued bete. een then and day-lig ht restore to their rank and pay such of the Officers was employed by both in repairing damages, • suspended by the Government of Madras, in the e e. fcfoug h t late dissensions, as acted idobedienee to the orders - • At day-light we the a nd j of their superiors. Major BOLES, =Deputy Adjutant .- desperately ; still, however, so equally we wan, ecl • General wilt) published the Geeerat Orders Which' m• chid - ' •• .“ • • . , 41, that neither gave such offence to Sir GEORGE BARLow is one On - ee •- • - , ~ . • - e- • xteldethe daring attempts of the one being cooshav,n,,.t:; I ly defeated by the valour of th,- ; . otpel7. ' Xou . 1 !! those' restored,. , 7 . CV acted . ba , . t 1 in obedience W the or- (lets of his principal, Colonel CiirrEß, scarcely . believe That we . a . ctUirily maintained lb"' , e lide , " -. 01).4. - 1413'itt and long contest teerna Monday at General GivLAY commands in Southern Hun- gary, where a very aBivd recruiting is carried on. ,i